Meat buyers strike fails to curb meat price rises
A United Press survey of more than 25 cities shows overall meat prices staying high or climbing. Lamb chops and pork chops edged up while some cities saw declines. Kansas City and Minneapolis posted notable drops, but many markets reported only small shifts or no change.
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Los Angeles
Charleston
W. Va
Detroit
Washington
Columbus
Ohio
Indianapolis
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Buffalo
St. Louis
Raleigh
Salt Lake City
Fort Wayne
New York
Milwaukee
Atlanta
Boise
Idaho
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Dallas
Texas
Boston
Memphis
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Tacoma
Wash
Pierre
S. C
Des Moines
Iowa
Madison
Wis
Soviet Consul Visit Probed During Injured Teacher Case
Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, a Russian teacher injured after leaping from the soviet consulate building, rejected a vice consul’s proposal to move her to another hospital. Police described a guarded Roosevelt Hospital room and an attempted visit by Soviet officials.
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New York
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Zot I. Chepurnykh
William Dyczko
Chepurnykh
Dyczko
Ledden
Kosenkina
Lomakin
Truman May Act On Republican Anti-Inflation Bill
President Truman prepared a statement outlining his views on the GOP anti inflation bill as Washington expected him to sign the measure. The bill would restore wartime controls over time payment buying, tighten bank reserves, and raise the top purchase limit toward four thousand dollars.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Charles G. Ross
Taft
Ohio
Ohioan
Congress
G.O.P. Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Safety Warning For Friday the 13th
The National Safety Council issued a Friday warning urging caution in driving walking and working and a bit more politeness in driving. The notice says the same advice would apply on Friday the fourteenth or any other day.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Zehrlaut Couple Arrested In Stock Fraud Case
Gertrude Rich Zehrlaut and her husband Bert Zehrlaut were jailed on charges of selling unregistered stock and stock without a license. Bonds set at 5000 and 4000 dollars, with courts in Vermillion Vigo and Newport handling preliminary matters. The case links to United States Machine Tool Company bankruptcy and RC C suit for 90000 dollars, with police and deputies filing affidavits and pursuing asset records.
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Herbert A. R. Zehrlaut
Gertrude Rich Zehrlaut
Zehrlaut
Vigo County
Newport
Ind
Vermillion County
Maurice Et
Maurice Sodet
Mary Strassmeier
Zehrilauts
Sodet
Zehrlauts
Indiana Securities Commission
Sam Hoffman
Commission
Vigo
Virgil Allen
F. L. Naugie
Loren Griffin
Zehriaut
Zehriauts
United States Machine Tool Company
Clinton
United States District Court
Terre Haute
Zehrraut’s
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Tool Company
Harold Wisehart
David Rosenfeld
Clay County
Brazil
Jordie Lewis
Ira Hall
United States Machine Company
Skeleton found identified as missing tool maker Adolph Sachs
A skeleton beneath a Chicago apartment basement floor is tentatively identified as Adolph Sachs, a 36 year old tool and die maker who disappeared in December 1935 after telling his family he would visit Maxwell Street for bargains. His wife and sons say the identification matches dental work and anthropological evidence.
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Chicago
Adolph Sachs
Sachs
Maxwell Street
Catherine
Robert
Donald
Hastings Street
American C-54 crashes at Templehof during Berlin airlift
An American C-54 transport crashed and burned at Templehof Airdrome in dirty weather while attempting a ground controlled landing. Three crewmen Capt George Adams Co Pilot Lineton Floyd and Engineer Charles O Hara escaped uninjured. The incident marks the third crash in the airlift amid tense Berlin conditions.
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Berlin
Templehof
U.S
George Adams
Lineton T. Floyd
Charles O'Hara
Suisun
California
Gatow
Air Force
Kommandatura
Allied Control Council For
Germany
A. W. Moran
Widow Named Defendant in Alienation Suit in Chicago
A 45-year-old Chicago widow, Lois May Contois, is named as defendant in a $10 000 alienation of affections suit filed in federal court by Mrs Martha Wilke of Hammond Indiana. Mrs Wilke alleges Contois used charms to induce her husband William Wilke Jr president of Hammond Lead Products Inc to divorce and marry Contois. The suit claims Wilke spent large sums on Contois and that Mrs Wilke suffered nervous shock and medical expenses.
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Chicago
Hammond, Ind
Martha Wilke
Glendale Park
Hammond
William Wilke, Jr
Hammond Lead Products, Inc
Lois May Contois
Wilkie
Lightning Bolt Shatters Window in Audubon Hospital
A bolt of lightning struck the Audubon hospital twice on August 13 injuring no one. It hit a second floor window then caused a kitchen accident spilling soup and knocking a spoon from a cook’s hand as a first floor diet kitchen was struck and the window shattered. Fire Marshal Edward Hull cited grounding via a metal fire escape.
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Audubon
N. J
Audubon Hospital
Edward Hull
Miner Pension Forms Sent To Members In Mail
First forms for the $100 a month pensions have been mailed to secretaries of locals. Claims must be certified by mine locals and district headquarters before submission to Washington. Welfare fund pension board approves, and checks are mailed after certification and approval.
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Louis Austin
District 11
Ralph Day
Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Welfare Fund Pension Board
Russian paper denounces Soviet citizens' kidnapping in U S
Izvestia bitterly protests what it calls the kidnapping of Soviet citizens in the United States. It states the entire land of the Soviets will not permit harm to its people, wherever they may be.
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London
Izvestia
United States
Libya as Prize in Power Struggle Between Russia and West
The article notes Libya's central role in global politics as Moscow and Western powers argue over its fate, with focus on Italy's former colonies including Libya Eritrea and Somaliland. It reflects on Mussolini era pride and Libya's strategic Mediterranean position, hinting at debates in London among the Big Four deputy foreign ministers.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Italy
Libya
Eritrea
London
Mussolini
Cirenaica
Il Duce
One in six Americans receive federal payments in 1948
A United Press survey shows about 15,830,899 adults receive money from the federal government in 1948. The largest group are veterans and dependents, with 2,900,000 veterans and dependents on federal pensions and GI unemployment benefits noted. Federal spending may reach about 42 billion dollars, roughly 6.6 times 1920 levels.
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Washington
United Press
G.I
Ruth Shows Improvement Despite Critical Condition
Babe Ruth showed improved signs as of last night with his condition unchanged but better overall after rallying yesterday morning. The home run king remains on the critical list at the hospital where he has been treated since June amid a lingering illness and recent pulmonary complications from a cold.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Claire
Ruth
Two Young Hammond Husbands Die In Tragic Twins
HAMMOND Ind Aug 13 Two young husbands are found dead Lucius Laughter 28 hanged in his basement Emil Haluska 26 fatally wounded by shotgun in his kitchen Haluska’s wife Adeline treated for shock at St Margaret Hospital in Hammond Local police investigate the apparent double suicide or murder scene.
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Hammond
Ind
Lucius Laughter
Emil Haluska
Haluska
Adeline
St. Margaret Hospital
Weather brief from Terre Haute and region
The forecast notes partly cloudy skies in Terre Haute and vicinity with little temperature change. Indiana forecasts fair to partly cloudy, Illinois mostly fair with possible thundershowers in the southwest and extreme south areas. River at 2.3 feet and rising. yesterday’s high 90, low 68 with .6 inches precipitation.
Terre Haute Youth Confesses to $1 Million In Colorado Las Vegas Fires
Terre Haute 20 year old Leon Rowland confessed to setting fires across five western states totaling about $1 million in damage including two in Denver and two lumber yard blazes in Las Vegas. He says a traveling companion started one Las Vegas fire. Las Vegas prosecutors plan arson charges. Rowland described a thrill from watching fires since age six in Los Angeles and begged his mother not be informed. Terre Haute detectives noted past runaways and an escape from Muscatatuck School in 1944.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Terre Haute
Leon Rowland
Denver
Colo
Rowland
Los Angeles
Indiana
James Evele
Muscatatuck School
Evele
New Moscow Crisis Looms During Spy Hearings
Washington reports two top Roosevelt aides Lauchlin Currie and Harry D. White testified they gave no secret information to Soviet agents and were not communists. Ambassador Bedell Smith said the U.S. will grant asylum to Soviet teachers if they prefer to stay, while Detroit Senator Ferguson Reich urged Truman to face communist activity within the administration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Lauchlin Currie
Harry D. White
Walter Bedell Smith
Molotov
Moscow
United States
New York
Smith
Michael Ivanovitch Lamarine
Russia
Oksana
Kosenkina
Detroit
Ferguson Reich
Truman
Ferguson
Senate
Wrecked Navy Patrol Bomber Found on Rota Island
The charred wreckage of a navy Patrol Bomber was found halfway up an 800 foot cliff on Rota island. All crew members are presumed dead though the exact number aboard is unknown. Two C-47s with doctors and rescue crews landed on an abandoned Japanese air strip after distress signals were sighted. Search for the missing plane began Wednesday afternoon with navy and air force planes and Japan-based destroyers.
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Guam
Rota Island
Here
Gary Street strike ends as city workers resume service
Gary Indiana August 13 after a three day strike by 190 garbage street and sewer department workers ended with wage and hour compromises. Drivers and mechanics gain 11 percent to 1 dollar 40 cents per hour and laborers 12 percent to 1 dollar 26 cents. Overtime pay for beyond eight hours daily and 48 hours weekly approved.
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Gary
Ind
Michael Sawochka
Teamsters Union
A.F.L
Herman Wietbrock
Construction Laborers Union
Gene Swartz
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